In Session 1 2020, SCU College's English Language Programs (ELP) began delivering its direct-entry Academic Purposes (EAP) and general English units online for the first time. The College faced the same challenges - related to staff and student training and the migration of online materials, classes and courses - as other schools, faculties and colleges in universities throughout the world. However, the added complexity that ELP providers in Australia faced was that the National Code, the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) Standards 2018, requires providers to deliver 20 face-to-face hours of English language education to students every week (Department of Education, 2019). The project to migrate all SCU College ELP resources online continues, and the College continues to offer 20 hours of synchronous English language education to students both onshore and offshore each week.
As SCU College's English Language Programs (ELP) have moved from emergency remote teaching mode towards a more sustainable online model (Hodges et al., 2020), we have increased our online offerings and started to explore more innovative approaches to teaching and learning. We are now offering not just EAP and general English units online but also study tours, and increasingly using educational apps and social media to keep our online classes relevant and engaging. This presentation will share some of the possible uses of WhatsApp (Wei, 2017), Quizlet and Padlet in the delivery of online English language lessons.